The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for sacroiliac and lumbar L4-S1 arthritis as secondary to his service-connected hypertension, finding that the fall from a ladder in November 2011 was caused by new hypertension medication.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's current sacroiliac and lumbar L4-S1 arthritis is proximately due to or the result of a 2011 fall from a ladder while at work for VA, which was caused by new hypertension medication. The contemporaneous medical records support this claim.
- Claimed conditions
- sacroiliac and lumbar L4-S1 arthritis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 27, 2024
- Citation
- A24078908
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A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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